Just when I pick up my phone, a bunch of red dots pop up again, “xx has been pulled,” “a certain celebrity tweeted”… It makes people itch to comment. But honestly, the real pain on-chain isn’t that you missed the hot topic, it’s that you think you’re queuing, when in fact someone is cutting in line.

The more I look at MEV, the more it resembles a succulent slicing: the top layer is the moment you click swap, the next layer is how the ordering rights/block producers position transactions. The ones most affected are usually not the “long-term holders,” but those who open wide slippage and chase meme hype — when you rush in, others have space to sandwich you, the price gets pushed up, and you think the market is just too fast.

So veteran players advise newcomers not to take the last step, I think the essence is: during attention shifts, it’s easiest to become “paying a tip to the queue jumper.” I now prefer to do two fewer trades, tighten parameters, and if it doesn’t go through, so be it. That’s all for now.